Serious Man, A

Slow pacing mars this Oscar-nominated, quirky, seemingly pointless, cameo-dotted (Michael Lerner, Fyvush Finkel, and Tim Russell) Coen film peppered with laughs about a curse that comes to fruition for a naïve, milquetoast, Jewish physics professor (Michael Stuhlbarg) in Minnesota who seeks the advice of multiple rabbis (George Wyner, Alan Mandell, and Simon Helberg) and a lawyer (Adam Arkin) as he deals with a failing Korean student (David Kang) who bribes him, a pot-smoking son (Aaron Wolff) who gets in trouble at Hebrew school, a petty thieving daughter (Jessica McManus) who wants a nose job, a gambling-addicted brother (Richard Kind) in trouble with the law, and a self-absorbed wife (Sari Lennick) who is having an affair with a portentous widower (Fred Melamed) in 1967.
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